Kerry McDonald
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You Don’t Have to Send Your Kid Back to Public School This Fall—Here Are Your Options
This year’s back-to-school season is as uncertain and unsettling as the last. With schools in some parts of the country…
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How Cities Are Pushing Small Daycares Out of Business
This article is excerpted from LiberatED, a weekly email newsletter where FEE Senior Education Fellow Kerry McDonald brings you news…
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Famous Investor: The Homeschooling Boom Is Just Beginning
Speculation abounds over whether or not the pandemic-induced growth in homeschooling is temporary. While there are several signs indicating that…
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Virginia School Board Hearing on Critical Race Theory Descends into Uproar and Arrests — It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way
Whether it’s yesterday’s battles over prayer in school or today’s conflicts over critical race theory, public schooling causes people to…
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4 Signs Parents Won’t Be Sending Their Kids Back to Public School This Fall
As disruptive as the 2020/2021 academic year was, it led to many positive educational changes that will be transformative and…
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Biden’s Taxpayer-Funded Childcare Plan Won’t Work, Harvard Economist and Obama Ally Concludes
The Biden administration is proposing to spend $225 billion on subsidized daycare over the next decade as part of its…
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The Labor Market Shortage is Exposing Two Big Ways the Government Hurts Teenagers
My 14-year-old daughter walked over to a nearby floral shop earlier this week to see if she could work there…
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Two Grown-Up Homeschoolers Explain How Alternative Education Helped Them Get Ahead
With more parents than ever before choosing or considering the homeschooling option, it can be helpful to hear how homeschoolers…
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4 Reasons to Oppose Biden’s Universal Preschool Plan
I will be talking about Biden’s universal preschool plan on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal television show tomorrow, May 7th, from 8:00-9:00…
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Impending Zoom: New Exposé Shows Teachers Union Influenced CDC School Reopening Guidelines
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was preparing to release school reopening guidelines in February suggesting that…
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States Are Moving to Ban Toxic ‘Critical Race Theory’ in Schools—But Their Efforts Could Backfire
A mom in a Boston-area online parenting group posted earlier this week that her child’s public school chemistry class was…
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Biden Administration Prioritizes “Wokeism,” Critical Race Theory In Schools
The Biden administration is taking new steps to promote Critical Race Theory and The New York Times’s controversial 1619 Project…
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These Parents and Teachers Have Had Enough of Woke Classrooms and Critical Race Theory
More parents are waking up to the “woke” ideology that is seeping into their children’s classrooms and curriculum. Increasingly, they…
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Public Kindergarten Enrollment is Plummeting—Here’s Why That’s a Good Thing
Public school enrollment has consistently declined across most states this academic year, and there are new signs that the trend…
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California’s Largest Teachers Union Wins Subsidized Child Care Ahead of Reopening
The United Teachers of Los Angeles, California’s largest teachers union, raised eyebrows last summer when it released a report detailing…
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